— Electricity demand doubling — China number 1 explorer of natural resources — India and Africa are growth areas for energy consumption — Bypass fossil conversion inefficiency — Trillions of dollars of private capital sitting around not being invested at the moment — New materials such as carbon nanotubes, bimorph structures, etc. are going to reduce launch costs and space structure costs — niche markets — Pacifica 44c/kw hour — DOD over $1/kw hour — Are these big enough niche markets? — Denmark going green — Space elevator power could be beamed down as well as beamed up — Private financing will be there to some extent — Demonstrator projects are interesting possibilities — Maybe use a Bigelow module for demonstration — Terrestrial-based beaming experiments on a much larger scale — Next step: space-based demonstrator using a very large antenna and getting the antenna — Getting the technology right will unlock a large amount of private investment — Following that there will be new models and new competition such as the Soleron project — Decentralized power availability might change global property values